2016 The Acceptable Year of our
Lord Jesus Christ
There is a common thread running through ALL of our founding documents. Wise sages such as John Locke wrote down some amazing thoughts on freedom and the rights of the individual verses the state... But it wasn't simply one man's words that ignited a fire that led to this nation's Independence... it was a spirit, a thread, a deep understanding of true freedom and liberty, that when one following God heard it, it LEAPT in their spirit and they cried YES YES, THAT IS IT, THAT IS THE TRUTH!! When asked by Richard Henry Lee if Jefferson had simply copied the 2nd Treatise by Locke when composing the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson replied in a letter " I turned to neither book nor pamphlet..." and that " I did not consider it as any part of my charge to invent new ideas altogether, and to offer no sentiment which had ever been expressed before" On the contrary, his desire was "to place before mankind the COMMON SENSE of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent..." and that his document "was intended to be an expression of the American mind..."
What we shall see, is that the same truths that Locke wrote down, resonated SO STRONG in the hearts and minds of the American people, that Jefferson's pen literally flowed almost in tandem with much of Locke's 2nd Treatise. We can learn a lot from this UNITY in spirit of all good Christians and patriots who held freedom in the highest order...
Such can be seen in the 15th clause of the Virginian Declaration of Rights drawn up by George Mason which was widely copied in whole or in parts by other colonies as they too became independent states.
" That no free Government, or blessing of liberty, can be preserved to any people but a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles..."
What we shall see, is that the same truths that Locke wrote down, resonated SO STRONG in the hearts and minds of the American people, that Jefferson's pen literally flowed almost in tandem with much of Locke's 2nd Treatise. We can learn a lot from this UNITY in spirit of all good Christians and patriots who held freedom in the highest order...
Virginia Declaration of Rights
Such can be seen in the 15th clause of the Virginian Declaration of Rights drawn up by George Mason which was widely copied in whole or in parts by other colonies as they too became independent states.
" That no free Government, or blessing of liberty, can be preserved to any people but a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles..."
Rebuilding and Repairing
The Declaration of Independence Revision 2016
Isaiah 61:4
And they shall rebuild the old ruins,
They shall raise up the former desolations,And they shall repair the ruined cities,
The desolations of many generations.
des·o·la·tion
ˌnoun
- a state of complete emptiness or destruction."the stony desolation of the desert"
synonyms: bleakness, starkness, barrenness, sterility; More
- anguished misery or loneliness.
Isaiah 58 Ministries January
Pastor Leah "Faith"
For the Just live by "Faith"
Trusting only in God!
References: Isaiah 61, John Locke Second Treaties of Government, 1 Thessalonians 4:11, 2 Thessalonians 3:10, 1 Corinthians 4:12, Proverbs 6:10,11, Exodus 20:3, Declaration of Independence
Pre-requistes:
Evil vs. Holy
Opposite for evil: "Holy"
"auspicious, decent, good, honest, moral, sinless, upright, virtuous"
God gives us the "Holy" Spirit. Those lead by the "Holy Spirit" are "Holy" and do not sin. Those not lead by the "Holy Spirit" are being lead by someone or something else: the devil, sin, evil.
There are some big changes coming in America. Don't be surprise when you start getting "Holy," Pure," "Non-sexual thoughts", (non-"Lustful") - or words put into your mouth. That is God speaking through you instead of sin/evil that you are used to.
This weekend 6 of us agreed on something in the unity of the Holy Spirit. That has never happened before. It was sooooooooo peaceful and comforting! The "Holy" Spirit unites. Fighting arguing, sin or evil, divides people. Jesus came to bring "Peace" to those who believe!
https://www.facebook.com/stosma/posts/10205064102354918?fref=nf&pnref=story
Check out this video of a European government official who has had enough of people coming into his country and demanding to sit around and not do anything. This guy is right but "work" should mean "farm their own land"! Right now this man is talking about everyone. Most everyone is unwilling to work and are living off handouts. A job is a handout! https://www.facebook.com/RomanorumRex/videos/731713350266394/?theater
Working for yourself on a farm= not dependent on others:
it is "WORKING" in the Biblical Sense! Truthfully!
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2 Thessalonians 3:10 (NKJV)
10 For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat.
1 Thessalonians 4:10-12English Standard Version (ESV)
10 for that indeed is what you are doing to all the brothers throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to do this more and more, 11 and to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you, 12 so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one.
  
To Love God and depend on him Only! Scripture commands Christians not to take handouts, to owe no man but to love him.
Restoring America's Rights before God
Despot
Despot is a person:
The following is a paraphrase of John Locke or summary in modern terminology so we have "the same meaning" the people had who read it in the late 1600's, 1700's and 1800's. It is the foundation of the Declaration of Independence from The Second Treaties of Government. See References below for transcript as John Locke wrote it.
 
Anyone who uses force, coercion, or aggression to take my freedoms from me has forfeited his life and is liable to the people who will rise up and take his, (Their), life, (Lives) from him, (them)...
  The Ten Commandments is what the founding Fathers used as the foundation and example all "Good" American citizens to follow. For no one is above the laws of God.
Declaration of Independence Quotes: See below for the whole transcript
John Locke, Jefferson, and the Declaration of Independence
Locke: " The People, who are more disposed to suffer, than right themselves by Resistance"
Jefferson/Declaration:"mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable than to right themselves, Locke: " But if a long train of Abuses, Prevarications, and Artifices, all tending the same way..." Jefferson/Declaration: " But when a long train of abuses and ursupations pursuing invariably the same object.."
Locke: " in the frame they have be accustomed to
Jefferson/Declaration: "the form to which they are accustomed..." Jefferson seems to use Locke's definition of tyranny when calling George III a tyrant as his quotes seem to be culled from Locke's chapter on the Dissolution of Government, the famous "right to revolution chapter... " ( John Locke Philosopher of American Liberty Mary Elaine Swanson)
Paragraph 1...........it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them...
Paragraph 2
..............Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, (Freedom) and the pursuit of Happiness, (possessions, property).--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
................... to effect their Safety and Happiness
................mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable,
......................a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government
........................... object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.
....................To prove this, let Facts be submitted
List: He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
All Laws made by a unified people, in government, community, fellowship, to end suffering, for peace and safety must be Wholesome and Good before Almighty God- following his Ten Commandments which all men are subjects to and must obey.
Isaiah 61 New King James Version (NKJV)
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The Good News of Salvation
61 “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me,
Because the Lord has anointed Me
To preach good tidings to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives,
And the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord,
And the day of vengeance of our God;
To comfort all who mourn,
3 To console those who mourn in Zion,
To give them beauty for ashes,
The oil of joy for mourning,
The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;
That they may be called trees of righteousness,
The planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.”
Because the Lord has anointed Me
To preach good tidings to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives,
And the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord,
And the day of vengeance of our God;
To comfort all who mourn,
3 To console those who mourn in Zion,
To give them beauty for ashes,
The oil of joy for mourning,
The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;
That they may be called trees of righteousness,
The planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.”
4 And they shall rebuild the old ruins,
They shall raise up the former desolations,
And they shall repair the ruined cities,
The desolations of many generations.
5 Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks,
And the sons of the foreigner
Shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
6 But you shall be named the priests of the Lord,
They shall call you the servants of our God.
You shall eat the riches of the Gentiles,
And in their glory you shall boast.
7 Instead of your shame you shall have double honor,
And instead of confusion they shall rejoice in their portion.
Therefore in their land they shall possess double;
Everlasting joy shall be theirs.
They shall raise up the former desolations,
And they shall repair the ruined cities,
The desolations of many generations.
5 Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks,
And the sons of the foreigner
Shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
6 But you shall be named the priests of the Lord,
They shall call you the servants of our God.
You shall eat the riches of the Gentiles,
And in their glory you shall boast.
7 Instead of your shame you shall have double honor,
And instead of confusion they shall rejoice in their portion.
Therefore in their land they shall possess double;
Everlasting joy shall be theirs.
8 “For I, the Lord, love justice;
I hate robbery for burnt offering;
I will direct their work in truth,
And will make with them an everlasting covenant.
9 Their descendants shall be known among the Gentiles,
And their offspring among the people.
All who see them shall acknowledge them,
That they are the posterity whom the Lord has blessed.”
I hate robbery for burnt offering;
I will direct their work in truth,
And will make with them an everlasting covenant.
9 Their descendants shall be known among the Gentiles,
And their offspring among the people.
All who see them shall acknowledge them,
That they are the posterity whom the Lord has blessed.”
10 I will greatly rejoice in the Lord,
My soul shall be joyful in my God;
For He has clothed me with the garments of salvation,
He has covered me with the robe of righteousness,
As a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments,
And as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
11 For as the earth brings forth its bud,
As the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth,
So the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.
Second Treaties of Government by John Locke http://www.constitution.org/jl/2ndtr15.htm
CHAP. XV.
Of Paternal, Political, and Despotical, (Despot) Power, considered together.
Sec. 171. Secondly, Political power is that power, which every man having in the state of nature, has given up into the hands of the society, and therein to the governors, whom the society hath set over itself, with this express or tacit trust, that it shall be employed for their good, and the preservation of their property: now this power, which every man has in the state of nature, and which he parts with to the society in all such cases where the society can secure him, is to use such means, for the preserving of his own property, as he thinks good, and nature allows him; and to punish the breach of the law of nature in others, so as (according to the best of his reason) may most conduce to the preservation of himself, and the rest of mankind. So that the end and measure of this power, when in every man's hands in the state of nature, being the preservation of all of his society, that is, all mankind in general, it can have no other end or measure, when in the hands of the magistrate, but to preserve the members of that society in their lives, liberties, and possessions; and so cannot be an absolute, arbitrary power over their lives and fortunes, which are as much as possible to be preserved; but a power to make laws, and annex such penalties to them, as may tend to the preservation of the whole, by cutting off those parts, and those only, which are so corrupt, that they threaten the sound and healthy, without which no severity is lawful. And this power has its original only from compact and agreement, and the mutual consent of those who make up the community.
Sec. 172. Thirdly, Despotical power is an absolute, arbitrary power one man has over another, to take away his life, whenever he pleases. This is a power, which neither nature gives, for it has made no such distinction between one man and another; nor compact can convey: for man not having such an arbitrary power over his own life, cannot give another man such a power over it; but it is the effect only of forfeiture, which the aggressor makes of his own life, when he puts himself into the state of war with another: for having quitted reason, which God hath given to be the rule betwixt man and man, and the common bond whereby human kind is united into one fellowship and society; and having renounced the way of peace which that teaches, and made use of the force of war, to compass his unjust ends upon another, where he has no right; and so revolting from his own kind to that of beasts, by making force, which is their's, to be his rule of right, he renders himself liable to be destroyed by the injured person, and the rest of mankind, that will join with him in the execution of justice, as any other wild beast, or noxious brute, with whom mankind can have neither society nor security*. And thus captives, taken in a just and lawful war, and such only, are subject to a despotical power, which, as it arises not from compact, so neither is it capable of any, but is the state of war continued: for what compact can be made with a man that is not master of his own life? what condition can he perform? and if he be once allowed to be master of his own life, the despotical, arbitrary power of his master ceases. He that is master of himself, and his own life, has a right too to the means of preserving it; so that as soon as compact enters, slavery ceases, and he so far quits his absolute power, and puts an end to the state of war, who enters into conditions with his captive.
(* Another copy corrected by Mr. Locke, has it thus, Noxious brute that is destructive to their being.)
Sec. 173. Nature gives the first of these, viz. paternal power to parents for the benefit of their children during their minority, to supply their want of ability, and understanding how to manage their property. (By property I must be understood here, as in other places, to mean that property which men have in their persons as well as goods.) Voluntary agreement gives the second, viz. political power to governors for the benefit of their subjects, to secure them in the possession and use of their properties. And forfeiture gives the third despotical power to lords for their own benefit, over those who are stripped of all property.
Sec. 174. He, that shall consider the distinct rise and extent, and the different ends of these several powers, will plainly see, that paternal power comes as far short of that of the magistrate, as despotical exceeds it; and that absolute dominion, however placed, is so far from being one kind of civil society, that it is as inconsistent with it, as slavery is with property. Paternal power is only where minority makes the child incapable to manage his property; political, where men have property in their own disposal; and despotical, over such as have no property at all.
Declaration of Independence
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
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